Sunday, November 25, 2012

This most delicious little darling, curled in a helpless ball on the floor of a dirty thrift shop, leaped into my arms and kissed my face all over like a happy Chihuahua. The thrift store allowed me to Foster it, knowing I'm a good person with a big heart and would take good care of it until it can be placed in a Forever Home.

I want to keep her but my husband says we can't keep every Ironstone Pitcher Pet we find and is making me pass her on.

Meanie!

I'm already attached!!!!!

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Look at her strong pedigree. Love her beautiful lines and rich texture.

Her color is creamy deliciousness.

I put a Christmas Tree in her and she is up at the Hole in the Wall........waiting to be adopted. I might go up and visit it today, just to pet it a few times and make sure it isn't lonely. :)

Saturday, November 24, 2012

I have to keep this short as I can hardly keep my eyes open, but wanted to show friends and my MOM........Hi Mama!!!..........what I've been doing night and day, for 2 weeks.

I have been in a big hurry to get the booth up and running as 40,000 people come to the tiny town of Dade City, Florida for Christmas celebrations and festivities.

My booth is in a Hole in the Wall location called Annetta's Attic. If you blink, you'll miss it. She also owns Annetta's Antiques down on the corner as well, but my stuff is up in the attic. And my booth is a literal "hole in the wall".......an old closet. Perfect for me.

Not too big. Not too small. Just right.

OK, I'm sorry but every time I turn down the hall to my little booth, I start humming "Hotel California" with my own lyrics.

On a dark cluttered hallway, need wind in my hairWarm smell of moth balls, rising up through the air.... (lame)

Ok, this is what the very busy, cluttered, full of "Junque" hallway looks like. That stuff is not mine

My stuff is in the closet

I'm second left after the Pepsi machine. Got it?

Here are before and after shots. Whoopideee Dooo!!!

Pshawwyeeaaa!!! Coming together.

Yikes! Empty wall space! Must. Put. Something. There.

Got a lot to do, but it's coming together and behaving nicely for me.

No fights with Junque so far.

I have a big Pyrex collection and my friends freaked out when they saw I was starting to break it up and get rid of it. I had to take it out of the booth and let them have first dibs.

It kills me to sell my aqua and pink pyrex but my son's teeth and college education are more important, right? RIGHT????

I stinkin' LOVE this little aqua tree. I put a million dollars on it, so maybe it won't sell.

hahaha Naaaa...I put a fair price. *sniff* Hope no one else likes it.

And this is what it finally looked like when I left it today. I'm a perfectionist and it upsets me to post pictures with an imperfect, so much left unfinished, booth space.......but alas, I'm 44 now and I'm getting closer to the age of not carrying so much about what people think..... So here ya go.

Now if people would just come in and buy!!!!! The economy is bad. I know. :( But, but, but......I just GOTTA succeed. If I fail, my husband will make me stop pickin' and shopping.......and that would be very bad.....for me.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

My mom was in a "not feeling so well" mood tonight. She thought taking the dog for a quick walk would clear her head of the "oogies". As if I'm going to sit around and watch the dog be the source of her joy and mood improvement. !!! I must win. Meeeoooowwwrrrrrrr...

She walks down the very dark street with the stupid, in a hurry to smell everything delicious, DOG. I think it will be a good idea to follow her all the way down the street, way down the street, way way down the street...in the dark. With traffic coming and going.

CRAP! She saw me.

Busted. Quick. Run and make her chase me. That always makes her laugh. She likes playing tag. Her absolute favorite thing to do is trying to catch me in the neighbors shrubs at night. She loves to play hide and seek with me. Wait, what??? Why is she screaming and yelling? I thought I was making her happy. Ohhhhh boy. I'm in trouble. I think I better hide under a car and....quietly, tip...toe.. back home.

(If I was a gentleman, I would help her catch the dog who also got away while she was trying to catch me. But I'm a little intimidated by her anger at the moment. She's on her own. I'll stay down here under a car, where it's safe)

She is giving me the silent treatment. WHATEVER LADY!!! I tried!!!

I stick my tongue out at you with passive aggressive afterthought.

(I will sneak into bed with her tonight about 2:00 am. She'll never know. I STILL WIN!)

Saturday, November 10, 2012

I have been very busy with the etsy store and my new booth. If I go for a long time without sewing, I get grumpy. Hand work is my savior, as it keeps my brain cleansed of twaddle and worry. It's good to empty it out and meditate or pray while your fingers are busy accomplishing something loving...usually a gift or something to keep my family warm, safe and cuddled.

Pooh picked out 2 shades of Green for me to use.

Baby Milo's quilt. I was inspired by those cute, scrappy confetti quilts. I'm calling this "The Emerald City Quarry". LOL It fits, yes?

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A quiet homeschool moment. He doesn't like it when I take his picture. I told him to chill out, I was taking a picture of my lamp. He wasn't buying it.

"I do NOT like patchwork," said Anne dolefully, hunting out herworkbasket and sitting down before a little heap of red and whitediamonds with a sigh. "I think some kinds of sewing would benice; but there's no scope for imagination in patchwork. It'sjust one little seam after another and you never seem to begetting anywhere. But of course I'd rather be Anne of GreenGables sewing patchwork than Anne of any other place with nothingto do but play. I wish time went as quick sewing patches as itdoes when I'm playing with Diana, though. Oh, we do have suchelegant times, Marilla. I have to furnish most of theimagination, but I'm well able to do that. Diana is simplyperfect in every other way."

“We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men” ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air." ~

I'm happy you found 'Sweet Woodruffs'. I hope you'll be inspired and encouraged here. I thrive on resourcefulness using my black belt in thrifting. I decorate my home with eclectic, vintage finds. I'm happiest when mothering, nurturing, or creating. When I'm not playing house, I'm babying my Springer Spaniel rescues, ripping up shirts and sewing a quilt.